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Friday, October 10, 2008

WinPatrol Explorer Integration Option

By popular demand, I’ve released an update to the latest version of WinPatrol. In the last new version I added the ability to request PLUS Info directly from Windows Explorer. Unfortunately, I neglected to make this an optional feature. As always I like to make everyone happy so I found room for a new option.

6 Comments:

Tunaman said...

I just upgraded to WinPatrol Version 15.9.2008.5 and have tried the Windows Explorer Integration. The "WinPatrol PLUS Info..." shows up when I right click on an executable file, but when I click on "WinPatrol PLUS Info...", all I get is the Run or Cancel dialog box. What am I doing wrong?

What I would recommend is to click on the Options tab and you'll see a check box that says "Allow PLUS data collection". If you have this checked, uncheck it and let me know if that resolves the problem.

When I was testing out the "WinPatrol PLUS Info..." function, I had gone to a folder where I save various software downloads and patches. The files were executables, but were all "installation" files such as "wpsetup.exe". These files all resulted in the "Open File-Security Warning" dialog box. And when I selected "Run", they would then go to the WinPatrol website.

This morning, I decided to try some actual program executable files. When I selected the "WinPatrol PLUS Info..." option, all the program executables went directly to he WinPatrol website - as you intended.

So, for some reason, the installation executable files respond differently from actual program run executables.

As far as I'm concerned, this problem is solved for me. I hope if someone else is having difficulties as I did, this explanation will help them.

Thanks again for your excellent software. I've been a fan of WinPatrol for many, many years. Keep up the great work.